Report: Bill would reduce senior care

(I saw a headline on the MSNBC site  that got my attention; “Health Bill Would Reduce Senior Care“… it’s a reposting of the Washington Post article I have posted below.   I then found a favorable review on the Daily Kos discussing the same article and saying they were glad to see this getting some attention. The idea here is that in working to make the healthcare bill “cost neutral” (which is what the Blue Dog and the New Dems said they wanted), what they have done is skim half a trillion off Medicare benefits.  The effect that will have over time will be too gradually phase-out Medicare altogether by choking out the reimbursements to healthcare providers (hospitals, doctors, ect.). This is pure, neo-liberal free-market ideology; privatize any and all “safety net” public expenditures. Not surprizing coming from the Obama/Clinton “New Dem” administration.)

by Lori Montgomery, Washington Post

A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

The first TV Advertisment for the RFID Chips and the Bilderberg/Trilateral Candidates For the Presidency of the EU

“The plan is to get everyone chipped. That’s the goal. Get RFID chips put in everyone and everything is tied to these things. Money, healthcare, transportation … everything. And if someone gets out of line, we just turn off their chip.” Arron Russo talking about his conversation with a member of the Rockefeller family.

On the Ball Marketing has put together this advertisement for the Verichip ”Health Link”. It’s a scannable RFID chip that will supposedly link up to your medical records, making it easier to tell if you are current on your insurance premiums I guess. But of course, this is just the first of many future applications for these things.

Verichip Healthlink ad.

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Mario Borghezio points out that 3 of the candidates for the presidency of the European Union are in fact major players in the Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission groups.

Jan Pete Balkenende

David Milibrand

Herman Van Rompuy

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and just for the fun of it, check out this video that describes how the Bush team is now going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars rewriting the history of the Bush administration.  Hundreds of millions of dollars to erase the historical facts of the criminality and the cruelty and the treason committed by the globalists that ran his administration.

God only knows what they will be teaching our children and grandchildren about these days in the years and the decades to come.

After years of detention and torture, Ten Guantánamo prisoners to face US trial

by Patrick Martin, WSWS

US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that ten of the prisoners now held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp would be transferred to US locations and placed on trial on terrorism charges. The purpose of these high-profile trials is to reinforce the claims by first Bush and now Obama that US military aggression in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan is part of a “war on terror” triggered by the 9/11 attacks.

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance

Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of medicine at Harvard University and a primary care physician in Cambridge, speaks with  Amy Goodman on Democracy Now, about the House version of the Obamacare plan. Very good interview. Go see the video at Democracy Now website or just read the full transcript after the break.

… Congress needs to start from scratch on this bill. The reform process in Washington has been hijacked by the private health insurance industry. If you look at the Baucus framework, which was the basis of the Senate bill—it’s on the Senate Finance Committee website. Just right-click on that document, and it turns out the author of the document was Elizabeth Fowler, who’s a former vice president of Wellpoint, the nation’s largest private insurance company, covering 35 million people. So the private insurance industry has hijacked the process. What’s come out of the House, what’s likely to come out of the Senate, is a completely inadequate bill that takes about $500 billion in taxpayer money and hands it over to the private health insurance industry.  Woolhandler

Denying responsibility for the wars one cheers on

The NYT columnist who has supported four wars on Muslims in six years decries the Islamic disregard for human life

by Glenn Greenwald, Salon

David Brooks’ column today perfectly illustrates what lies at the core of our political discourse:  namely, self-loving tribalistic blindness laced with a pathological refusal to accept responsibility for one’s actions.  Brooks claims there is a unique evil that one finds in the “fringes of the Muslim world”:

Obama’s Sophomoric Ft. Hood Sales Pitch

by Scott Creighton

A few days ago, I told a family member that the Ft. Hood story just didn’t “sound” right and after reading some reviews of President Obama’s Ft. Hood speech, I am certain now that the official narrative has been completely managed and manipulated from very early on.

A Little More Information on Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan:He’s Not Very Extreme for Your Average Extremist

by Scott Creighton

The intercepted communications between Ft. Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and the controversial Anwar al-Awlaki, a former imam at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, was not suspect in any way, according to “official sources”. In fact, according to a CNN report, the two emails both pertained to research that Maj. Hasan was conducting on behalf of his position with Walter Reed Medical Center. But that hasn’t stopped the propagandists from falsely insinuating a connection between the events at Ft. Hood and the false-flag attacks of 9/11.

Israel Says “Arbeit Macht Frei” as they Set Up “Work Camps” for Palestinians… oh, I mean “illegal migrant workers”…

(you gotta be shitting me. I wonder if the gate to the camps will read “Work Brings Freedom”)

Welcome to Israel

from the leading Israeli newspaper  Haaretz

The government is considering establishing work camps in the south of the country, where illegal migrant workers will receive shelter, food and medical care, Army Radio reported Wednesday. In exchange, illegal migrants would perform manual labor outside the camps (for private corporations?), but would not earn a salary.

They would stay at the camp until their asylum claims are decided, which could take months or years.

The proposal, part of the effort to address the problems posed by illegal migrants, would place asylum seekers at jobs in communities in the Negev and Arava. Their salaries would go to the state, in order to fund the camps.

Lies, War, and Empire

by Scott Creighton

In honor of the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s decision to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan to prop up the “freely elected” president Karzai, I offer the following;

Michael Parenti’s 2007 lecture…

“imperialism is the process of empire. Empires do imperialism. That’s what they do… Imperialism is not only the process, it’s the political/economic content (otherwise known as the Washington consensus). Imperialism is when the ruling interests of one country expropriate the land, the labor, the natural resources, and the capital and the markets of another country. Imperialism means PLUNDER and TRIBUTE.  imperialism isn’t just about POWER. It’s not power for power’s sake…. it’s POWER to get you WEALTH and then using your WEALTH to get you more POWER… that’s what it’s about… that’s what the guys in the White House TODAY are doing… Empires are extremely profitable. Mostly for the RULING and INVESTING class of the imperial country.” Parenti

Now, of course, he was talking about Bush and Cheney… well, he was really talking about the people who tell Bush and Cheney what to do, the unelected rulers of this nation. The SAME men and women, by the way, who still run it today.

In Keeping with the old adage “There is a Sucker Born Everyday”, I present… The “Historic” Healthcare Bill

by Scott Creighton

The Rainmaker

The “historic” 1,900+ page House healthcare bill… being touted as “a government take-over” of healthcare by the republicans and libertarians alike… is thus:

“What do you believe in sir? Dyin cattle?!”